What is our responsibility to our planet and future generations? What can we do to promote sustainable practices and be good stewards of our environment? Join us for a conversation with director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley and Ecologist Dr. Bala Chaudhary from Dartmouth College’s Environmental Studies Department after the performance.
ADMISSION TO SPOT ON IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
About Dr. Bala Chaudhary:
Dr. Bala Chaudhary is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Awardee and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Continent Scale Biology. Research in her lab focuses on mycorrhizas, underground networks between plants and fungi, and how they can be incorporated into nature-based environmental solutions. Her work spans dozens of ecosystems, from cities to deserts to rainforests, and has applications in climate change mitigation and adaptation, soil conservation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable agriculture. Prior to academia, Dr. Chaudhary worked as an environmental consultant in Los Angeles restoring drastically disturbed urban areas to create habitat for endangered species. She is an award-winning advocate for antiracist strategies in STEM and the founder of WOCinEEB, an international organization for racial and gender minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Join us after the show for a conversation with director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley, Kate Duesterberg (Co-Founder, Cedar Circle Farm) and Danielle Allen (Owner, Root 5 Farm). Hear from them about the process of bringing our farm to stage musical to life, and the challenges and joys of farming now!
Kate Duesterberg is a founder and former operations director for 22 years of Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center in East Thetford, Vermont. Along with her husband Will Allen, she helped develop the community-based organic vegetable and flower farm and its accompanying educational programs; all with the aim of raising awareness about the relationship between organic, regenerative farming and healthy food, the environment and consumers. Before coming to Central Vermont, Kate worked at UVM as the co-creator and program director of the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
Join us after the 5:00 PM show for a conversation with Dartmouth Professors Dan Rockmore, Emily Finn, and Jeremy Manning on a discussion of Humans & Machines: Boundaries & Relationship.
Emily Finn is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. She completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Yale, and her postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health. Before that, she received a B.A. in linguistics, also from Yale. Emily’s work is focused on individual variability in brain activity and behavior, especially as it relates to appraisal of ambiguous information under naturalistic conditions. Her lab is also interested in questions of subjectivity and subjective judgments in artificial and natural intelligence.
Jeremy Manning is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, where he runs a research lab studying how we think, communicate, learn, and remember. He also teaches courses on data science, cognitive models, experimental methods, and computer programming. Prior to Dartmouth, Jeremy trained in computer science and neuroscience at Brandeis University (undergraduate), University of Pennsylvania (doctorate), and Princeton University (post-doctorate).
Dan Rockmore is the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, and Associate Dean for the Sciences at Dartmouth College. He holds appointments in two academic departments — math and computer science — and is deeply committed to interdisciplinary study. He has worked at Dartmouth since 1991. He completed his undergraduate work at Princeton University and earned his Ph.D.in Mathematics at Harvard University. Dan directed SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School 2005-2009. His most recent book is the edited volume What are the Arts and Sciences? A Guide for the Curious (UPNE 2018). He is also co-editor of the book Law as Data, soon to be published through SFI Press. In addition to his scientific work he is the co-producer of four documentary films, most recently The Birth of BASIC on the origins of the BASIC programming language.